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Mainframe Development Must be the Focus, Not the Brunt, of a Digital Transformation
In a world of extreme and unpredictable change, agility is imperative. That’s why large enterprises have rightfully invested in all kinds of agility-enhancing capabilities—from hybrid cloud to DevOps. Unfortunately, any improvement not made at the constraint is an...
Real-Time Reconciliation: z14 and the Holy Grail
In July 2017, IBM unveiled the z14, latest in its family of z-System mainframes. Capable of running over 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, the fastest commercial mainframe in the world opens up new horizons in every field of computer processing. This...
Mainframe News Out There – September
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: How to Survive on a Frozen Mainframe Budget and Grow It Interesting article by Steven A. Menges on the...
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 2
In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1. Mainframes are Expensive? Think that mainframes are expensive? That depends on what you’re looking at. If you are looking at acquisition hardware costs,...
3 Important I/O Features Coming with the IBM z14
17 July 2017 marked the IBM announcement of the latest IBM mainframe: the IBM z14. Congratulations to the IBM Z team on a successful launch of what looks to be yet another in a long and distinguished history of superb enterprise computing platforms. Similar to the...
Special engines that save cost on the Mainframe!
Do you know that mainframe systems have several kinds of engines (i.e., processors) not just a Central Processor (CP)? Early mainframes had only one processor – the Central Processing Unit (CPU). As the mainframe industry evolved over the decades, today’s systems...
Should DB2 have an Immutable Table Function?
I love hearing about Blockchain; if you are involved in Fintech, then surely by now you have heard a lot about it, and that it holds a tremendous amount of promise for Internet business. Fundamentally, it guarantees the validity of a transaction. Blockchain is a...
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 1
When I heard about the HuffPost article highlighting a video debunking the myths that Hollywood has been repeating about the mainframe, I was cautiously optimistic. Unfortunately, the writer chose to use only one reference book, and focused on the negative points....
Latest
Mainframe Development Must be the Focus, Not the Brunt, of a Digital Transformation
In a world of extreme and unpredictable change, agility is imperative. That’s why large enterprises have rightfully invested in all kinds of agility-enhancing capabilities—from hybrid cloud to DevOps. Unfortunately, any improvement not made at the constraint is an...
Real-Time Reconciliation: z14 and the Holy Grail
In July 2017, IBM unveiled the z14, latest in its family of z-System mainframes. Capable of running over 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, the fastest commercial mainframe in the world opens up new horizons in every field of computer processing. This...
Mainframe News Out There – September
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: How to Survive on a Frozen Mainframe Budget and Grow It Interesting article by Steven A. Menges on the...
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 2
In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1. Mainframes are Expensive? Think that mainframes are expensive? That depends on what you’re looking at. If you are looking at acquisition hardware costs,...
3 Important I/O Features Coming with the IBM z14
17 July 2017 marked the IBM announcement of the latest IBM mainframe: the IBM z14. Congratulations to the IBM Z team on a successful launch of what looks to be yet another in a long and distinguished history of superb enterprise computing platforms. Similar to the...
Special engines that save cost on the Mainframe!
Do you know that mainframe systems have several kinds of engines (i.e., processors) not just a Central Processor (CP)? Early mainframes had only one processor – the Central Processing Unit (CPU). As the mainframe industry evolved over the decades, today’s systems...
Should DB2 have an Immutable Table Function?
I love hearing about Blockchain; if you are involved in Fintech, then surely by now you have heard a lot about it, and that it holds a tremendous amount of promise for Internet business. Fundamentally, it guarantees the validity of a transaction. Blockchain is a...
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 1
When I heard about the HuffPost article highlighting a video debunking the myths that Hollywood has been repeating about the mainframe, I was cautiously optimistic. Unfortunately, the writer chose to use only one reference book, and focused on the negative points....
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Test your SMF knowledge and more with trivia this week!
As usual, this week’s trivia challenge will look back at two Planet Mainframe articles with different themes. This week, our first article will be most relevant for companies that outsource their mainframes to specialist outsourcers. The second should be highly...
Mandates and Talent Shortages are Driving Big Spending on Modernization
IBM Awarded $1B IRS Contract for Modernization of Aging IT Systems IBM announced this week that it is one of four organizations chosen to support the Internal Revenue Service’s massive, seven-year, technology modernization program. The IRS’ aging and...
How Much Do You Know About COBOL?
Whether you love it or hate it, COBOL has been around for a long time, its impact lingering even as its popularity wanes. Created by committee way back in the middle of the last century, COBOL was one of the first high-level computer languages and the business...
Terminal Talk is back and More
Open Mainframe Project Announces Schedule for Open Mainframe Summit Las Vegas on September 11 Registration is now open for the Open Mainframe Summit, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community. The goal of the conference, which...
Cloud and Hybrid Solutions Continue to Prove the Value of the Modern Mainframe
Rocket Software Study Reveals 93% of IT Leaders Believe Hybrid Cloud Solutions are the Future of IT Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, has released its 2023 Survey Report: “What...
Do You Know The New Trends In Mainframe? Test Your Expertise!
We’re halfway through the year, which seems like a good time to reflect on what’s happening in the world of mainframe in 2023, and to what degree Big Iron is ready to take on the future. Keith Allingham does just that in his article: The Mainframe: A Look Back at...